Today's Tidbit
Rosie-Sid Newcomb Email Exchange
The yearbook says that you are from San Jose, Costa Rica. I've always wondered how you got appointed from Costa Rica.
Rosie,
I was born in Coral Gables, Florida (a suburb of Miami). My dad was a station manager for Pan American Airways. This took him, my mom and me first to Trinidad 1939-41 (we flew out of Miami on a Sikorsky S-42 seaplane, landing in the bay off Port of Spain, Trinidad, where Dad came out to meet us in the Panam yacht, throwing a rope to the co-pilot so we could be towed into the dock!), then Suriname '41-43, then Brazil for several months, then Haiti, then Costa Rica '47-56. As my parents were legal residents of Miami, Congressman Dante Fascell, Dade County, nominated me to the Academy.
Sid
I was born in Coral Gables, Florida (a suburb of Miami). My dad was a station manager for Pan American Airways. This took him, my mom and me first to Trinidad 1939-41 (we flew out of Miami on a Sikorsky S-42 seaplane, landing in the bay off Port of Spain, Trinidad, where Dad came out to meet us in the Panam yacht, throwing a rope to the co-pilot so we could be towed into the dock!), then Suriname '41-43, then Brazil for several months, then Haiti, then Costa Rica '47-56. As my parents were legal residents of Miami, Congressman Dante Fascell, Dade County, nominated me to the Academy.
Sid